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I moved to Istanbul, Turkey back in December 2012 for a job (and to research my upcoming novel). As I’ve been chronicling this new adventure for my blog: An American Author in Istanbul, I realized the importance of authors using…

One of my pet-peeves is the so-called marketing expert who has no proof to show for all their wisdom, knowledge, and so-called advice. With that in mind, I felt it is only right to let you know how my latest…

Independent publishing is under fire, folks. First came the fake review scandals on Amazon. Next, book critics started lamenting the rise of the authorpreneur as the death knell of publishing. And recently, James Patterson took out full-page ads to petition…

I came across an interesting article on The Four Hour Workweek site today that sparked my desire to write this week’s blog. Tim Ferriss does a great job explaining how he got 1 Million views for his video on The…

AD.com comments: E-book pricing is one of the pillars of Digital Book Discovery and below you will find a thought-provoking, but not very helpful to the average indie author (in my opinion), article from Digital Book World about how publishers…

In February 2013, Amazon announced changes to the Amazon affiliate program, via their updated Terms of Service that states: if we determine you are primarily promoting free Kindle eBooks (i.e., eBooks for which the customer purchase price is $0.00), YOU…

If you haven’t noticed by now, I enjoy taking the contrary point of view whenever possible. When everyone is running to the right, I invariably have to go left. It is with this spirit that I review the recent acquisition…

Before we get into why I’m all in with KDP Select, first let’s cover the basics. Amazon announced the Kindle Direct Publishing Select Program back in December 2011 designed to let indie authors and publishers “make money in a whole…

These are the confessions of a book promotion junkie. What follows is a detailed account of my addiction and how I feed it. It’s every author’s worst nightmare. No, not the dreaded 1 star review. Those are hard to stomach,…

These are the confessions of a book promotion junkie. What follows is a detailed account of my addiction and how I feed it. This blog post is rather lengthy with lots of numbers (and a little math) so consider yourself…